DBMS > Drizzle vs. Memgraph vs. NebulaGraph vs. Snowflake vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Memgraph vs. NebulaGraph vs. Snowflake vs. Trafodion

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

memgraph.com

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

www.snowflake.com

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

docs.nebula-graph.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Social network pages

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Memgraph Ltd

Vesoft Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2008

2017

2019

2014

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

Strong typed schema

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Users, roles and permissions

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Social networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customers

Companies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metrics

At our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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Licensing and pricing models

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NebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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